Centennial by James A. Michener

Centennial by James A. Michener is a 909-page hardcover published by Random House, New York.  Copyright 1974.  The dust jacket shows some rubbing and closed tears.  Inside, the pages are clean and unmarked, and the binding is sound. Book Summary As did its eminent predecessors Hawaii and The Source, Centennial deals with its scene--The North American west, especially Colorado--from prehistory to the present.  Long before man, the animals inhabited the land, and these are the first characters to appear, beginning with diplodocus, 160 millions years ago.  She is followed by members of families whose descendants are important to the rest of the story:  the horse, the buffalo, the beaver and the rattlesnake.  Then, perhaps, 12,000 years ago, the latecomer arrives, and the first man presented is an artist in the fashioning of flint projectile points. The novel is based solidly on the facts of history and is an illuminating account of the development of this country, and of the immigrants fr